(CHESAPEAKE, Va.) Grady Pitts, 82, of Chesapeake, Va., died Friday, June 15, 2012.The funeral service will be Monday, June 18, at 11 a.m. at Indian River Baptist Church with Rev. Bert Kirk officiating. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park.A native of Randolph County, Ala., he was the son of the late Grady Mancil Pitts…
(ROANOKE) A memorial service for glen Michael Williams, 64, of Roanoke will be at Welcome Home Baptist Church at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 24, 2012, with the Rev. Bill Puckett officiating. Mr. Williams died Tuesday, June 5, in Dublin, Ga. Mr. Williams was born Sept. 23, 1947, in Pontiac, Mich. He was involved in antique…
(WADLEY) Marva Jean Battle, 71, of Wadley died Monday, June 11, 2012, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Services were at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 15, at County Line Baptist Church, Wadley. The Revs. Sanders Higgins, William Trammell, Eddie Hunter and Larry Wycoff officiated. Burial was in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Battle was born…
(WOODLAND) Services for Gerald L. Gore, 61, of Woodland were Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at noon at Benefield Funeral Chapel, with Rayford Edmondson officiating. Burial was in Providence Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Gore died Friday, June 15, at Regional Medical Center, Anniston. Mr. Gore was born Jan. 17, 1951, son of William L. and Rosa…
(HUGULEY) James Melvin “Red” Gunn of Huguley died Thursday, June 14, 2012, at his residence after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Graveside services will be Monday, June 18, at 11 a.m. EDT at Hillcrest Cemetery in Lanett with the Rev. Gerald Sykes officiating. Born Feb. 22, 1925, in Tallapoosa County, Mr. Gunn was the only…
(TALLADEGA) Terry Beverly, 93, was born June 11, 1919, in Randolph County and died June 13, 2012. The funeral will be Saturday, June 16, at 11 a.m. at New Hope Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Pine Hill Cemetery. He grew up during the Depression, and his family moved to Talladega in order for his…
(DAVISTON) Clarice Vickers Jones, 90, died at East Alabama Medical Center, June 11, 2012. The funeral was Wednesday, June 13, at 11 a.m. at Daviston Baptist Church. Interment followed at Daviston Cemetery. Mother, MawMaw, Aunt Punk or Mrs. Clarice, as she was affectionately known to family and friends, was born Aug. 20, 1921, to Harvey…
(WEST POINT, Ga.) Charles “Charlie” Cummings, 68, of West Point, Ga., died Monday, June 11, 2012, at his home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday at the Hunter-Allen-Myhand Chapel with Brother Robert Gough and Brother Mike Hawkins officiating. Interment will be in Restlawn Memory Gardens. Mr. Cummings was born April 16, 1944,…
An altercation at an Auburn apartment complex Saturday night led to the shooting deaths of three people and the hospitalization of three more. Killed were Auburn resident DeMario Pitts and former Auburn football players Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips, a native of Roanoke. The injured victims include Auburn football player Eric Mack, who was released…
A young Rock Mills girl suffered third-degree burns from a campfire on Friday evening while visiting friends. According to the incident report from Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, 4-year-old Kayleigh Burks was visiting at 2546 County Rd. 43 in the Corinth community, where she was with other children who were outside with a campfire. An adult…
The Randolph County Fire Association recently held a training class on the campus of Southern Union State Community College in Wadley. Wadley Fire Department was the host department for this event. The training was titled Water on Wheels. It consisted of both classroom and hands-on training involving the use of water tender trucks, also referred…
WADLEY––The Wadley Town Council conducted a busy meeting last Thursday, changing Police Chief J.C. Ogletree’s status from interim to permanent, passing a no tolerance status for drugs, as well as approving other public safety issues. The council approved making Ogletree full time instead of interim after meeting in executive session at the request of Councilman…
Roanoke Mayor Mike Fisher at the Monday meeting recognized Mary Baker upon her retirement as director of the Community Action Agency in Randolph County; William Treadwell upon his retirement from the Roanoke Housing Authority, and the winning senior members of the Handley High School Lady Tigers softball team and the coaches. Other business The Palm…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by John D. Kelly and his wife Tonia Kelly, married, to Wachovia Bank, National Association, on the 3rd day of August, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County,…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by William M. Dillard and Daffie M. Dillard, husband and wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Shore Mortgage, on the 10th day of March, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: BILLY JOE LAKE, DECEASED ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Billy Joe Lake, deceased, having been granted to Tiffany Rushing on the 6th day of June, 2012, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby…
STATE OF ALABAMA MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE RANDOLPH COUNTY Default having been made in the terms of the mortgage executed on the 1st day of June, 2009, by Michael Cody Mulkey to First National Bank of Georgia, which mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Probate Judge of Cleburne County, Alabama, in the Record of…
Why do bad things happen to good people? Books have been written about this, but the authors’ conclusions inevitably are unsatisfactory. Sadly, no one knows. In this case it seems to have been random chance. Anyone could have been there in place of those who were shot Saturday night. Those who were there were certainly…
April 29, 1959. Tuscaloosa Now most of you probably believe the rose-tinted-glasses reflections that the nostalgia industry has generated about college life in the 1950s. As that account has it, college campuses were peaceful places before the rebellious ’60s and the promiscuous ’70s. It was a time when college students studied, went to football games,…
The return on investment for Alabama’s retirement systems, one for teachers and education employees and one for judges and other public workers, hasn’t fared as well as those in other states over the past two decades. But David Bronner, CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, which includes both systems, says any drag on overall…